The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-09
DEEP THOUGHT.
A Solid Screed from a Pacific
Coast Philosopher upon
Pregnant Issues.
THE SOUL OF MONARCHY
Intrenched In the Very Hearts Of the
Present Ruling Glasses Of
America.
ROUND VALLEY, lingo Co., CAL,
June "a, 1887.

June "a, 1887.
For the Enquirer.
The government and laws of society are
founded on and framed more or less in
accordance with the primative british
quality of greed whose agents are might
and cunning. Success, right or wrong, Is
worshipped and the biggest robbers by
virtue of their successful" exploits,
whether on the legal or other highways,
are adored, surrounded with an atmos-
phere of sanctity, clothed with garments
of peculiar privilege, invested with
rights. sacred in proportion to the ex-
tent Of their conquests and accumulations;
and their obligations and duties to Others
dwindle in corresponding ratio. This
constitutes the "divine right" of kings,
especially the capitalistic kind.
The greatest ones generally pounce on
the very sources and means of the peo-
ple's life; and under cover of a pretense
of conserving the public interests, that
credulous public is blinded and too often
ready to concede the sincerity of their
professions and promises, and allow them
to consumate their fendish promises.
Money capital particularly is so holy
that to oppose the unrestricted behests of
its "owners" is criminal. To endow it
with facilities while remaining intact, to
add to itself dozen or hundred fold if
possible out of labor's Justly earned pile
is honorable" and patriotic" But if
brain and muscle capital employed in the
production of wealth essays to appropri-
ate more than meager one-thiri fold al
lowance of its own fruits-oh, horrorsl
that's "thieving," "riot," communism"
anarchy" "treason" or any other con-
venient characterization. The former,
through the mediumship of Society" has
a special, publicly-sanctioned privilege
infinitely outweighing in assumed value all
real rights of the brains and bodies of
living, striving, aspiring, suffering, loving
HUMAN BEINGS, even to trampling on the
hearts tenderest emotions, the souls di-
vinest impulses, and tearing asunder the
lives of those bound together b. the
strongest, holiest ties of conjugal mate
ship.
How,my heart bled in reading of the
recent case of an aged and worthy couple
in Jersey City, in the shadow of the great
metropolitan mountains of wealth, reduc
ed to squalid poverty and preferring to
emigrate together to the unseen bourne
than to be physically separated, to them
worse calamity than any other, but the
only condition on which society would
consent to, and proposed to force upon
them, if understood it rightly, miserly
response to their vital need. Looking
through capitals legalized spectacles that
poor couples destitution appeared as a
criminal fault, that rendered the commits
sion of real crime on their own part as
rightly imposed obligation on the suf
fering victims, seeing they we're so good
as to notice them at all. And society
after all was the murderer of those
Suicides"
In short, lifeless money invested is en-
titled to independent dividends; living
brain and muscle invested in useful pro-
duction, to none whatever, except a pit
tance barely sufficient to keep them in
working order for the sole benefit of these
"better classes" This is the 'civilization'
of to-day, American as well as Eastern,
for here also in this Stree and enlightened
republic" is the soul of monarchy itself
incarnated; the demon of Unsuitable greed
of material wealth, rule and fame, en-
throned and elaborately fortified as the
supreme arbitef and dictator of law and
order in every department of our national
establishment. How best to act in order
to most effectively change this condition
of ignorant undevelopment, of deep
rooted and intrenched selHshness with its
resultant hells from robbery and oppress-
ion to the more exalted plane of frater-
nifty, i. {. love, liberty, cooperation and
heaven is the momentous problem of the
hour.
As view it the employment of double
force in accordance With the natural Law
of motion and development is essential.
I confess to little faith in the efficacy of
the old political machinery and methods
alone to secure adequate and permanent
beneficial results. As an imitation Of the
English pattern with its kingly president,
lordly senate, ETC., it is too pliable an in